{"id":9713,"date":"2022-04-15T08:30:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T08:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/?p=9713"},"modified":"2025-06-12T20:04:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T20:04:55","slug":"my-top-5-rollercoasters-at-portaventura-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/?p=9713","title":{"rendered":"My Top 5 Rollercoasters at PortAventura World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I feel as if I don\u2019t speak enough about our PortAventura trip back in 2018. So today I\u2019m here to share with you guys my top 5 rollercoasters from that trip. I can probably guess the top 5 list of the bulk of people who have visited as they all seem to ADORE Shambhala. It\u2019s not really for me as you\u2019ll find out below. But if your that person skimming this ready to go to war over it, please don\u2019t, I respect your opinion &amp; I\u2019d hope you respect mine too.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">5 &#8211; Shambhala:<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I\u2019ll be honest, I\u2019m not even entirely sure I rate it this high. I think I might like El De Ablo more than this. However, precisely speaking I am open-minded. I feel as if we might have fallen exceptionally unfortunate when it comes down to rows and seating &amp; almost off on the wrong foot let&#8217;s say. I never shy away from the fact I am a thick gal in the thigh department. Therefore I genuinely believe it limited a lot of what this coaster is reasonable at; airtime, hang time and being a hypercoaster rather than the monorail. Every ride we had we got plonked on the back row which again never allowed me to try it elsewhere. So this could well be a fab coaster but going by experience it was god awful.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6573\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/9D51F538-5554-4610-A8CC-8F108D5C5765.jpeg?resize=500%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/9D51F538-5554-4610-A8CC-8F108D5C5765.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/9D51F538-5554-4610-A8CC-8F108D5C5765.jpeg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/9D51F538-5554-4610-A8CC-8F108D5C5765.jpeg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/9D51F538-5554-4610-A8CC-8F108D5C5765.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/9D51F538-5554-4610-A8CC-8F108D5C5765.jpeg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/9D51F538-5554-4610-A8CC-8F108D5C5765.jpeg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/> <\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">4 &#8211; Furious Baco:<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This coaster is strange to some extent. You sit on the inner seat front row and it is a delight. It\u2019s smooth and probably one of the best launches we\u2019ve done except Red Force. However, If you sit in the outer seat it\u2019s very diverse to the inner. It\u2019s a lot more bouncy I definitely would not say rough is the right word for it. Just more as if you are bouncing about which is an odd feeling. However, that aside the general overall experience is brilliant. I adored the pre-show aspect as it just flowed so well and didn\u2019t even hold up the queue which is always delightful. The launch was beautifully snappy and thrilling within itself. That stray inversion is also a real fun element too. It all just appeared to work so well together!<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6601\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/B634E65B-9A27-42A3-9DE6-DC45FA7777BD.jpeg?resize=500%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/B634E65B-9A27-42A3-9DE6-DC45FA7777BD.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/B634E65B-9A27-42A3-9DE6-DC45FA7777BD.jpeg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/B634E65B-9A27-42A3-9DE6-DC45FA7777BD.jpeg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/B634E65B-9A27-42A3-9DE6-DC45FA7777BD.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/B634E65B-9A27-42A3-9DE6-DC45FA7777BD.jpeg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/B634E65B-9A27-42A3-9DE6-DC45FA7777BD.jpeg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">3 &#8211; Dragon Khan:<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Oh, Dragon Khan is not spoken about anywhere enough. It is one of those coasters we went expecting to be a tragic experience but come away very stunned. It just delivers so much which gets ignored. The number of inversions once were record-beating of course they aren\u2019t anymore but it is probably my favourite proportion of them. I also really like the train style too. It\u2019s one of the few \u201ctypical\u201d rollercoasters we have done &amp; it was generously better than what we Had expected!<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6571\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/D4A1D919-3531-4362-B54A-B3ADF3E4BC89.jpeg?resize=500%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/D4A1D919-3531-4362-B54A-B3ADF3E4BC89.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/D4A1D919-3531-4362-B54A-B3ADF3E4BC89.jpeg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/D4A1D919-3531-4362-B54A-B3ADF3E4BC89.jpeg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/D4A1D919-3531-4362-B54A-B3ADF3E4BC89.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/D4A1D919-3531-4362-B54A-B3ADF3E4BC89.jpeg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/D4A1D919-3531-4362-B54A-B3ADF3E4BC89.jpeg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">2 &#8211; Stampida:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As someone who cherishes wooden rollercoasters, I was actually in heaven with this beauty. I think Stampida is fab. Both sides other two different experiences (definitely two separate creds). It was a lot smoother than I had predicted. I kind of rode it with the expectations of compromising my teeth, spine and came off very shocked by how relaxed it was. Genuinely one of those rides I wish I could nip down the road to experience but unfortunately it\u2019s many miles away haha.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9714\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0BC573E0-2811-4BE4-9075-6E2ED67571AE.jpeg?resize=500%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0BC573E0-2811-4BE4-9075-6E2ED67571AE.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0BC573E0-2811-4BE4-9075-6E2ED67571AE.jpeg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0BC573E0-2811-4BE4-9075-6E2ED67571AE.jpeg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0BC573E0-2811-4BE4-9075-6E2ED67571AE.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0BC573E0-2811-4BE4-9075-6E2ED67571AE.jpeg?resize=450%2C300&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0BC573E0-2811-4BE4-9075-6E2ED67571AE.jpeg?resize=90%2C60&amp;ssl=1 90w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0BC573E0-2811-4BE4-9075-6E2ED67571AE.jpeg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0BC573E0-2811-4BE4-9075-6E2ED67571AE.jpeg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">1 &#8211; Red Force:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It is a no brainier. This is by far the best rollercoaster I\u2019ve ever ridden at PortAventura if not ever. The speed, height and intensity are lush. There\u2019s not a minute of it which I think ah that could be better. Another thing that goes in the favour of this rollercoaster is the purely marvellous restraints &amp; carriages. Both of which are perfect. It\u2019s just immense I could sit and waffle about my pure lust for this coaster but you guys will end up falling asleep aha.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6609\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/65B39D69-79B1-44B8-90C6-E5C844E32CDA-300x200.jpeg?resize=500%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/65B39D69-79B1-44B8-90C6-E5C844E32CDA.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/65B39D69-79B1-44B8-90C6-E5C844E32CDA.jpeg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/65B39D69-79B1-44B8-90C6-E5C844E32CDA.jpeg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/65B39D69-79B1-44B8-90C6-E5C844E32CDA.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/65B39D69-79B1-44B8-90C6-E5C844E32CDA.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/65B39D69-79B1-44B8-90C6-E5C844E32CDA.jpeg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I hope you enjoyed this blog post &amp; be sure to share with me your top 5 Rollercoasters at PortAventura!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><strong><span class=\"s1\">Thank you for reading<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8193 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/4C81DF8B-578C-4D16-89C8-F9DE86FFBDFC.png?resize=600%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/4C81DF8B-578C-4D16-89C8-F9DE86FFBDFC.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/4C81DF8B-578C-4D16-89C8-F9DE86FFBDFC.png?resize=300%2C100&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/> <\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel as if I don\u2019t speak enough about our PortAventura trip back in 2018. So today I\u2019m here to share with you guys my top 5 rollercoasters from that trip. I can probably guess the top 5 list of the bulk of people who have visited as they all seem to ADORE Shambhala. It\u2019s not really for me as you\u2019ll find out below. But if your that person skimming this ready to go to war over it, please don\u2019t, I respect your opinion &amp; I\u2019d hope you respect mine too. 5 &#8211; Shambhala: I\u2019ll be honest, I\u2019m not even entirely sure I rate it this high. I think I might like El De Ablo more than this. However, precisely speaking I am open-minded. I feel as if we might have fallen exceptionally unfortunate when it comes down to rows and seating &amp; almost off on the wrong foot let&#8217;s say. I never shy away from the fact I am a thick gal in the thigh department. Therefore I genuinely believe it limited a lot of what this coaster is reasonable at; airtime, hang time and being a hypercoaster rather than the monorail. Every ride we had we got plonked on the back row which again never allowed me to try it elsewhere. So this could well be a fab coaster but going by experience it was god awful. 4 &#8211; Furious Baco: This coaster is strange to some extent. You sit on the inner seat front row and it is a delight. It\u2019s smooth and probably one of the best launches we\u2019ve done except Red Force. However, If you sit in the outer seat it\u2019s very diverse to the inner. It\u2019s a lot more bouncy I definitely would not say rough is the right word for it. Just more as if you are bouncing about which is an odd feeling. However, that aside the general overall experience is brilliant. I adored the pre-show aspect as it just flowed so well and didn\u2019t even hold up the queue which is always delightful. The launch was beautifully snappy and thrilling within itself. That stray inversion is also a real fun element too. It all just appeared to work so well together! 3 &#8211; Dragon Khan: Oh, Dragon Khan is not spoken about anywhere enough. It is one of those coasters we went expecting to be a tragic experience but come away very stunned. It just delivers so much which gets ignored. The number of inversions once were record-beating of course they aren\u2019t anymore but it is probably my favourite proportion of them. I also really like the train style too. It\u2019s one of the few \u201ctypical\u201d rollercoasters we have done &amp; it was generously better than what we Had expected! 2 &#8211; Stampida: As someone who cherishes wooden rollercoasters, I was actually in heaven with this beauty. I think Stampida is fab. Both sides other two different experiences (definitely two separate creds). It was a lot smoother than I had predicted. I kind of rode it with the expectations of compromising my teeth, spine and came off very shocked by how relaxed it was. Genuinely one of those rides I wish I could nip down the road to experience but unfortunately it\u2019s many miles away haha. 1 &#8211; Red Force: It is a no brainier. This is by far the best rollercoaster I\u2019ve ever ridden at PortAventura if not ever. The speed, height and intensity are lush. There\u2019s not a minute of it which I think ah that could be better. Another thing that goes in the favour of this rollercoaster is the purely marvellous restraints &amp; carriages. Both of which are perfect. It\u2019s just immense I could sit and waffle about my pure lust for this coaster but you guys will end up falling asleep aha. &#8212;&#8212; I hope you enjoyed this blog post &amp; be sure to share with me your top 5 Rollercoasters at PortAventura! Thank you for reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5053,5054],"tags":[1975,56,3793,1192,3792,150,1233,322,3790,3791,325,600,361,2852,2397,701,1009,3794,1286,2015],"class_list":["post-9713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-theme-parks","category-themed-attractions","tag-adventure","tag-barcelona","tag-eu-rollercoasters","tag-europe","tag-european-rollercoaster","tag-european-theme-park","tag-fun","tag-portaventura","tag-portaventura-rides","tag-portaventura-rollercoasters","tag-portaventura-world","tag-rollercoasters","tag-salou","tag-spain","tag-theme-park-blog","tag-theme-parks","tag-top-5","tag-top-5-rollercoasters","tag-travel","tag-travel-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0BC573E0-2811-4BE4-9075-6E2ED67571AE.jpeg?fit=2048%2C1365&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb4qDv-2wF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9715,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9713\/revisions\/9715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}